There is everything funny about having to create junk to wear trousers properly, and it's a situation Balthazar never had to cope with, being placed directly into an adult human vessel. Aziraphale can bet he'll be bringing that up later.
"Oscar," he repeats, needing a momentary digression from the serious topic. "If you tell me you've snogged Oscar Wilde I'm going to be moderately jealous, even though it didn't work out."
But okay, he doesn't have angelic ADD, he can focus again, knitting his fingers together and laying them across his knees. "As long as you make that decision out of freedom and not fear, I suppose I can't object. You really are sweet together, though. I'm sure even--"
The question makes him break off and tilt his head quizzically. "Admittedly, I don't know him as well as I know you. I've only talked to him with you around, but he's quite proprietary. In a good way, I mean. The way humans are when they're sweet on someone. Sort of a this person is mine attitude?"
He nods up at the giant teddy bear on display nearby. "And of course there's that. He suggested it, I'm sure he's aware that winning toys for their sweethearts is something humans do at fairs and the like. Lucifer and I did the same thing, actually. There's a plush manatee sitting on a shelf somewhere in Hell; take that mental image and run with it. Mine is a rainbow plush snake."
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Date: 2019-10-11 12:12 pm (UTC)"Oscar," he repeats, needing a momentary digression from the serious topic. "If you tell me you've snogged Oscar Wilde I'm going to be moderately jealous, even though it didn't work out."
But okay, he doesn't have angelic ADD, he can focus again, knitting his fingers together and laying them across his knees. "As long as you make that decision out of freedom and not fear, I suppose I can't object. You really are sweet together, though. I'm sure even--"
The question makes him break off and tilt his head quizzically. "Admittedly, I don't know him as well as I know you. I've only talked to him with you around, but he's quite proprietary. In a good way, I mean. The way humans are when they're sweet on someone. Sort of a this person is mine attitude?"
He nods up at the giant teddy bear on display nearby. "And of course there's that. He suggested it, I'm sure he's aware that winning toys for their sweethearts is something humans do at fairs and the like. Lucifer and I did the same thing, actually. There's a plush manatee sitting on a shelf somewhere in Hell; take that mental image and run with it. Mine is a rainbow plush snake."